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Industrial districts

In general terms, industrial districts can be understood as systems of non-urban localities, or localities within urban systems, characterised by a significant and enduring presence of one or a few manufacturing specialisations, alongside complementary industries and services.
Fabio Sforzi, Rafael Boix-Domènech
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Industrial Districts

2009
This article reviews the scholarly literature that has developed in the wake of the discovery of industrial districts and the Third Italy in the 1970s, and explores the traveling of this concept through a variety of geographical contexts and theoretical perspectives.
Filippo Celata, Ugo Rossi
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Industrial districts: the contemporary debate

ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE, 2011
The aim of the paper is to present the main lines of the wide-ranging and decades-long debate on IDs (industrial districts). We look at what the IDs have represented in the past, their current situation, and the challenges and opportunities these face in a socio-economic context that is spurring greater interaction between global and local forces.
BECATTINI, GIACOMO   +2 more
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Industrial Districts

2001
AbstractApplies the schematic representation of information systems to two major industrial districts: Prato, Italy, and Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. It highlights the way that regional business activity is integrated into the wider economy through external information flow.
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Identity and Identification in Industrial Districts

Journal of Management and Governance, 2001
The aim of this article is to extend theconcept of identity and identification to thestudy of industrial districts. The theoreticalmodel presented explains how identity andidentification occur within localizedproduction networks and examines how theprocess of identification affects theindustrial districts' performance andcompetitiveness.
SAMMARRA, ALESSIA, BIGGIERO, LUCIO
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Industrial sectors and industrial districts: tools for industrial analysis

European Planning Studies, 2002
The article begins by showing that the traditional concept of industrial sector has been radically criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds. The reasons for the concept's inadequacy are raised, and they are identified as: (i) the fact that in a rapidly changing world empirical classifications must be changed; (ii) the fact that when ...
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Institutional innovations in industrial districts

2004
The present essay aims to analyse the nature and the evolution of industrial district firms in terms of their institutional model. It is divided into four parts. In the first part, we observe the presence of certain barriers preventing institutional change in each model of firm. In the second part, some specific institutional and historical features in
FERRUCCI, Luca, VARALDO R.
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Small Firms and Industrial Districts

2012
Industrial districts (IDs) are dense centres of life and work, characterised by one or a few related localised industries tightly intertwined with the local society and the local institutional setup (Becattini et al., 2009). The agglomeration of firms, and thereby industries, in specific places when it coincides with the concentration and integration ...
BELLANDI, MARCO, L. De Propris
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The Evolution of Industrial Districts

2003
The book collects 15 contributions on the recent evolution of industrial districts in Italy. Topics include innovation, labour markets, internationalisation, regional development, dynamic models of local development, local development ...
Zoboli, Roberto, Cainelli, Giulio
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